I like it this way, myself. Now, as someone said, it's just a sad man talking to his cat. The man is crazy. It becomes an observation fron an outside perspective of a man harrassing his cat, while the animal sits by idly. Garfield is a mute documentor of Jon's spiral into madness. Alot of odd little moments emerge (Jon popping up saying "I was being sarcastic!" before departing once again) and the comic takes an almost surreal turn.
The funniest part is that they actually do work better without Garfields dialogue, towards the intended joke or not. Just goes to show, Jim Davis, you cannot draw cartoons for the life of you.
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